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It’s hard to truly
classify director Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead. Some might call it a romantic comedy, but it’s not really something
you’d watch while doing makeovers and eating chocolate. It’s got zombies in it, so it
counts as a horror flick. But it’s also funny—really funny—so I guess it’s a
comedy, too. So let’s just call it a romantic horror comedy…
Simon Pegg
stars as Shaun, a 29-year-old who spends his days working a dead-end job at an
electronics store and his nights hanging out at the local pub with his loser roommate, Ed
(Nick Frost), and his fed-up girlfriend, Liz (Kate Ashfield). You could say that Shaun
is stuck in a rut. He’s so stuck in his rut, in fact, that he doesn’t notice that London
is being overrun with zombies.
It isn’t until Shaun and Ed discover a
zombie in the backyard one morning that they begin to realize the horrors that surround
them. Suddenly, mild-mannered Shaun turns into a fearless hero, willing to do anything
to keep his loved ones out of the clutches of the undead.
Following in the
footsteps of movies like Army of
Darkness, Shaun of the Dead stands out as the funniest horror movie I’ve
ever seen (yep—it’s even better than Army of Darkness). The characters are real
people (you most likely met people just like them in college), and the situations are all
so totally ridiculous—yet they just seem so…perfect.
Sure, it may sound idiotic to have a
couple of losers (one with a cricket bat) rhythmically pounding on a zombie while Queen
plays in the background, but in Wright’s (and Simon Pegg’s) hands, it comes off as absolutely
brilliant.
Only the British could take romance, comedy, drama, and horror
and roll them together so perfectly. So if you’re a fan of British humor and/or horror
movies (and you’ve got a twisted sense of humor), you’ll want to add this one to your movie library.
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